Develop Student Agency: Allow Students to Manage Their Daily Learning
Personalized learning is not what is done to the learner or about tailoring the learning. It is about helping each learner to identify and develop the skills they need to support and enhance their own learning so that agency and self-advocacy can be realized.
– Kathleen McClaskey
INTRO
Give students the opportunity to envision how their daily school experience should change to allow students to better manage their own learning.
ACT skills and behaviors help students take ownership and successfully manage their learning. These skills include the ability to be self-directed, collaborate, set and meet goals, persist through challenges, learn to take notes effectively, and manage time well.
OBJECTIVES
- Include students in structuring their learning experience
- Encourage student agency of their learning
ACTIVITY
- Give students the opportunity to envision how their daily school experience should change to allow students to better manage their own learning.
- Ask students to identify barriers and offer practical solutions.
- This could be done on an annual basis, and then be used in a continuous improvement process to modify curriculum across the school, the master schedule, the physical environment, or the student services offered.
TIPS
- Big Plays are substantial efforts that take 6-18 months to fully accomplish.
- Like this activity? Check out Inflexion’s full-page ACT document for more ideas.
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